So today was my big day. My first experience with a class 3, and I must say... I now understand why it might take 4 actual appointments to clean one mouth. When I first heard that 4 appointment might be needed I didn't think that it was possible. Well, I learn something new everyday. It took me over 30 minutes to clean one quad and I still don't feel 100% confident about what I did today. The patient was even numb and it didn't quite go the way that I was expecting it to. I thought I could just get in there and work with no problems, but my patient was definately telling me otherwise. She said that she could still feel things and I am not sure if that is true or if it was just the pressure that was bothering her, but I can say that it was a high maintenance appointment. I was only able to get one quad done and I really wanted to be able to get to half of the mouth, but there is always Wednesday, right?
I did finish my last PE today, though, and it feels great to have all of those out of the way!
I do hope that I will be able to work well on Wednesday, so that she doesn't have to come back, but there is only so much that I can do.
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